Karaoke Theory/Karaoke Therapy reprised as “Singing Medicine” for Lola Göller and Flavio Degen’s participatory artwork Tina Coupé for Supergau Festival’s magazine.
Tina Coupé is a mobile party machine, pop-up karaoke booth and participatory art intervention devised by Berlin-based artists Lola Göller and Flavio Degen. Where ever it pulls up, bystanders, interlopers and art goers are invited to sing along with karaoke videos that they have likely never seen before. These music videos, made in collaboration with artists and communities, have evolved since the Covid pandemic when friends would get together to sing online. Tina Coupé adopts the phenomenon of karaoke as a globalized, cross-cultural and popular social practice, to address issues of space, accessibility and economic precariousness and it chimes with my interests in the social function and health benefits of singing.
